Born and raised in the Bruck an der Leitha area of Lower Austria, Michael Strasser claims to have been a bit of a country bumpkin growing up. "I was never a child who preferred a Gameboy and that sort of thing over exercise," he explains. "I was outside in nature every day."
Back then, however, even young Strasser himself couldn't possibly have seen how far – both literally and figuratively – that love of the outdoors would end up taking him.
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